Volume 3 Issue 1 - Joint Analysis and Lessons Learned Centre

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J O I N T A N A L Y S I S & L E S S O N S L E A R N E D C E N T R E
Volume 3, Issue 1 January 2012
Military Health Care Engagement Project Update
Haiti Case Study
Joint Study with Harvard University nears completion of first milestone
by Lt. Commander. André Thouvenel FRA N
A joint team from Harvard University’s Department of Global
Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
and JALLC deployed to Haiti in December under the framework
of the ongoing project on Military Health Care Engagement.
Haiti represents the first case study of this analysis
project that aims to identify options and limitations for comprehensive
civil-military reconstruction and stabilization efforts
with a focus on health care.
Almost two years after the 12 January 2010 earthquake and
more than one year after the outbreak of cholera, the joint
team had the opportunity to collect data in Port-au-Prince,
Léogane, and Mirebelais, through interviews of key actors
involved in the response to the disaster, in particular Haitian
authorities from the Ministry of Health, civilian and military
staff members of the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti
(MINUSTAH), UN Agencies, numerous NGOs, and representatives
from a number of embassies.
Downtown Port-au-Prince: two years later and signs of
the earthquake can be seen everywhere.
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The Joint Team meets visits a displaced persons camp operated
by the International Organization for Migration in Port-au-Prince.
All persons visited willingly collaborated with the joint team and
thereby enabled the team to better understand the military role in
humanitarian assistance and disaster relief from the context of the
response to the earthquake in Haiti and continuing development
work in that country. The team was able to identify the existing and
developing civil-military coordination mechanisms during the response,
and also to investigate the underlying relationship between
Health and Security.
The fruitful meetings and contacts also enabled the joint team to
gain an overview on the role that new technologies played or could
play for need assessment and disaster monitoring and to identify
future areas where militaries could better support civilian efforts
through engagement in the civilian health care sector.
The study expects to provide policy makers with options for, and to
identify potential limitations regarding, how to use military capabilities
in concert with a comprehensive international effort. The partnership
between Harvard University and JALLC ensures that the
team can approach the project from civilian and military perspectives
and backgrounds equally. Thus it is expected that the findings
of this Haitian case study, to be released in early February, will be
relevant and acceptable to both civilian and military audiences.
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